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Alan Turing, the Second World War code-breaker, is to be honoured with a new
research institute in his name, George Osborne will announce today.

Universities are to be asked to bid to host the new facility to develop
applications for the vast amounts of data now routinely collected and stored.

The new Turing Institute will be launched with five years of government
support from a new £222 million funding package to exploit commercially
scientific advances to be unveiled by the Chancellor in the Budget.

Two other institutes – one to pioneer new medical cell therapies and another
to develop products made